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pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#112026: Feb 14th 2016 at 4:37:42 PM

[up][up]Texas, Florida, and New Jersey are states, not cities.

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#112027: Feb 14th 2016 at 4:39:05 PM

[up] Miami is also part of Florida, so saying both Miami and Florida is redundant. He should of said Orlando, which is the part of Florida Disneyland actually is in.

edited 14th Feb '16 4:45:17 PM by Bat178

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#112028: Feb 14th 2016 at 4:43:58 PM

[up][up]Ops, I was thinking of Orlando and Houston and there isn't a New Jersey city?

Also Vegas, how could I forget Las Vegas? Nearly every movie involving drinking and adult children is set in there.

edited 14th Feb '16 4:47:20 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#112029: Feb 14th 2016 at 4:48:02 PM

[up] Jersey City, though Newark is the most common New Jersey city in fiction. Also, it's not like foreign countries get treated better in Hollywood, with only their capital cities appearing most of the time and them always getting destroyed to demonstrate a threat.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#112030: Feb 14th 2016 at 4:55:12 PM

[up]To be fair, my country is only known for two cities at best and sometimes the yanks think the capital is the one from another country, its portrait either falls on the whole country being a crime ridden slum filled with brown people or a place where foreigners go for wild paid sex and cocaine fueled debauchery.

Hollywood isn't exactly the best place to learn geography, besides I am still baffled how nearly every movie featuring Washington DC has skyscrapers. I've been there, the Capitol is the tallest building I managed to see if you exclude the Washington monument.

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#112031: Feb 14th 2016 at 5:17:49 PM

@Tomu. I remember reading Scalia wanted to make his opinions understood by the common man. Thus I doubt his actual thought process for okaying torture was "Jack Baur does it therefore it is okay". He was just using an apology he thought was humorous and would get the point across to any average citizen who wanted to read the opinion.

Oh and Hollywood only shows the non cosmopolitan parts of the country when it wants to make a point about how poor and stupid and unenlightened the people their are. Not that I disagree much. The first President the American people did elect when popular voting was implemented was after all Andrew Jackson.

edited 14th Feb '16 5:21:51 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#112032: Feb 14th 2016 at 5:35:16 PM

He should of said Orlando, which is the part of Florida Disneyland actually is in.
Disneyland is in California. The place in Orlando is Disney World.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112033: Feb 14th 2016 at 6:51:38 PM

I am still baffled how nearly every movie featuring Washington DC has skyscrapers.
It's not the Capitol Mall area, but get a little further away and there's plenty of tall buildings. No, it's not like New York, Chicago, or other major cities where the skyscrapers tend to be concentrated in the downtown area, but I think that's just because the actual DC is pretty darn small.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112034: Feb 14th 2016 at 6:56:30 PM

Doubleposting because I just saw this:

Ted Cruz appeared on Meet The Press this morning to repeat one of his looniest claims: “If liberals are so confident that the American people want unlimited abortion on demand, want religious liberty torn down, want the Second Amendment taken away, want veterans’ memorials torn down, want the crosses and Stars of David sandblasted off of the tombstones of our fallen veterans, then go make the case to the people.”
Video at the link. What the everloving fuck does being liberal have to do with religious discrimination? Oh, wait, I forgot, it's only discrimination when it means Christians can't rule over other religions.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#112035: Feb 14th 2016 at 6:57:08 PM

You know, any actual merit, or lack-thereof aside, this is hilarious.

edited 14th Feb '16 6:59:33 PM by LSBK

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#112037: Feb 14th 2016 at 10:46:57 PM

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is reportedly being investigated over allegations that he assaulted and choked a woman last night.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#112039: Feb 15th 2016 at 2:29:02 AM

I'm beginning to wish Joe Biden were running.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#112041: Feb 15th 2016 at 3:57:18 AM

That Clinton attack ad reminds me of my Windows 98 machine. Yeah, I'd beat it up... with more solid implements than a wooden baseball bat.

Donald Trump's supporters on social media are as classy as ever. Would any of the characters they've stolen for use approve of Trump's policies? Somehow I suspect a Word of God denial of such will just result in fan fiction and/or doujins where that is not the case. They did so for the Movement that Shall Not Be Named after all...

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#112042: Feb 15th 2016 at 5:45:24 AM

That Clinton video was pretty pathetic. 'A majority of financial experts put 90 percent of the responsibility for the housing crash on the backs of Wall Street banks', which links to...one blogger. Also an obviously edited video, and when I looked at the original, Clinton actually takes the side of most homeowners and takes Wall Street to task for its irresponsibility.

Obvious bad faith, beneath this forum.

edited 15th Feb '16 5:55:29 AM by Achaemenid

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#112043: Feb 15th 2016 at 6:30:42 AM

Could be good faith and just a deceptive video, too. It's hard to tell who has the agenda when anti-Clinton sensationalism pops up

(not accusing anyone here, but in the long game of "telephone" that is modern internet journalism, it's hard to tell where the bad actors spreading fake stories are).

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#112044: Feb 15th 2016 at 6:32:09 AM

[up][up]

Obvious bad faith, beneath this forum.

I wouldn't be so sure about that last one...

Can you link the original?

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#112045: Feb 15th 2016 at 6:37:45 AM

So. I am late to the party but ding dong the witch is dead (Haha I am hilarious for mocking the joke of a person this person being Antonin Scalia) but anyways...who is likely to replace him and when...?

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#112046: Feb 15th 2016 at 6:53:46 AM

There's a Desi fellow whose name I can't recall, but as to when...that's when things get tricky. The Republicans in the Senate will try and do everything in their power to stall the appointment of a new justice until after the election.

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112047: Feb 15th 2016 at 6:57:16 AM

[up][up] The only name I've heard has been Sri something, an appeal circuit judge who got his post on a 97-0 vote in the Senate. However, it's only been posited by pundits, not by anyone in the White House, though the efforts the Republican Senators would have to go through to justify blocking him would have to be entertaining.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#112048: Feb 15th 2016 at 7:04:59 AM

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan.

Not only a desi but a SOUTH desi. <pumps fist again>

edited 15th Feb '16 7:05:19 AM by FFShinra

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112049: Feb 15th 2016 at 7:10:24 AM

Not only a desi but a SOUTH desi.
I have absolutely no idea what this means.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#112050: Feb 15th 2016 at 7:20:11 AM

Yeah I was thinking the same...I mean I know what a desu is but not a desi...

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

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